Texas sexual-assault survivors now have a quieter route to forensic DNA testing that does not require calling the police. A new limited-consent option lets survivors get a forensic medical exam and have evidence tested for foreign DNA while holding off on a formal report to law enforcement.

A new Texas law allows for forensic medical exams for sex assault survivors even if no report has been made to law enforcement.

These articles describe how new forensic and DNA technologies have helped investigators resolve long-unsolved cases. Each story shows law enforcement reopening cold cases as tools improved. Investigators matched decades-old evidence with DNA profiles and genealogical methods to identify victims or arrest suspects.

DPS' Crime Laboratory Division is implementing the state’s new Limited Consent for DNA Testing Program for sexual assault survivors.

On the third day of a high-profile evidentiary hearing in Orange County, forensic experts took the stand Wednesday as the legal team for 80-year-old Tommy Zeigler sought to use modern DNA testing to challenge a nearly half-century-old murder conviction.

Serial rapist Sihle Makaula's conviction underscores the power of DNA evidence in prosecuting gender-based violence in South Africa.

Human remains discovered in 1974 near a northeastern Illinois creek have been identified through forensic DNA testing as a suburban Chicago man who vanished in the early 1970s, officials said. The skeletal remains are those of Donald M. Rozek of Harvey ...

Texas DPS launches a groundbreaking program letting sexual assault survivors test DNA free of charge, even if a report has not been made to police.

DENVER (KDVR) — A forensic scientist is no longer working with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation after “anomalies” were discovered in her DNA testing work. According to CBI, the former CBI employee is subject to internal affairs and criminal ...